One of us

[Purplelotus1]

Heres a few things you may not have known abot our BIG man:

Mom Patricia was a nurse
Dad was a math teacher

Steven worked at Bruger King as a kid in orange CA beofre heading East to Japan.

He has 3 sisters and is the only male( lucky for us girls)

his IQ is considered gifted (can see that)

Was raised Christian but changed as he studied East


The baseball game that changed the world: as a kid
Steven was watching a halftime demo by O'Sensei Morihei Ueshiba (founder Aikido) and decided thats what he wanted to do arent we glad he went to the ball game changed action films forever. Okay Bruce opened the door but Aikido likewise had not been used before Steven thats what I meant.

Has collections of swords and guitars..

called lone wolf (think Jazz name) loves Jamacian music (Jimmy cliff on several movies, blues, R&B, etc., own music played in several films end title to Marked for death vocal bridge is stevens (yam your supper soon.. then vocal bridge..then starts again)

alot of the naives in ODG were just that not actors thats their villge and he promised help with food and supplies they are far from civilazation. but Denali is so beautiful dont blame them (Denali is the mountain you go by as it starts the intntion is to fly as an eagle does from its POV bless the daring pilot who flew it it took courage to go that close! Photographers worse they had to sit in unobstructed heli meaning no doors just strapped in WOW. so you could get the panaramic view.

got an item feel free to add come on zenman I know you do, amos pur, heather, lottussan, mamasan.. :yin:

I have nothing. I know nothing. I seek nothing.

BTW Denali is beautiful

 

[jhogan]

jhogan don't believe everything you read, because you don't who the sources of the columnists and the publishers are. By making such statements, you make Steven Seagal sound like a lier, but I'm not going to place my opinion on that.

Oh I don't. But you don't believe everything Seagal says, do you? What I posted was one of several instances and sources that tell the same story. All of these folks are senior to Seagal and have nothing to gain or prove. They tell the same info when asked the same question. Someone alluded earlier in this post that Seagal may have occasionally stretched the truth a little bit when he started out, to appear someone he wasn't - he HIMSELF (SEAGAL) stated as such on the David Letterman show. So, I tend to believe the stories of folks whose job IS to preserve the history of Aikido rather than Seagal, who has chgd his story more than once.

And please, don't everyone start attacking, I am a fan of his movies to a point, especially his earlier work. Just am amazed at some of the tales that are told. (And this point refers to the general stories that are out there, not necessarily what we have spoke about here).

Oh, my aikido instructor, a senior Shihan, was present (on the black belt testing committee) when Seagal tested for his shodan (1st degree black belt) - I have seen pics. This happened when he was in the states before he went to Japan - IN THE EARLY 70's.

 

[Purplelotus1]

I am with you here Mr.Hogan.

 

[yudansha]

respect

I don't know what to say. Seagal's story was strange but made many believe it. Aikido was not popular in North America at the time of O'Sensei, so I don't know how the baseball association would allow time for an unknown to present an unknown art when the money is made by publicity and commercials (so yes, the baseball story does seem odd).

 

[tora]

Well,I can assume the same can be assumed regarding his ethnical roots.Once he says he's partially a Mongolian,then he says he's also some Russian,later on he turns out to be a Burityan too and long before these statements who else heard anything else about his roots?I'd say there are lots of big white spots on his history.

 

[yudansha]

Seagal is THE man (not a russian man though)

Actually Tora, there are many Russians in China. Also, the Siberians travel to Mongolia back and forth. The border is shared and is not regulated strictly, seeing that Mongolia poses no threat what so ever (kind of like Canada bordering Alaska). But as far as to call Seagal russian, that's like calling the Toronto Maple Leafs the Stanley Cup winners of the 2004 season. I don't know how much Mogilney can help, when the team seems off lately, going from first in the league to 3rd in the division.

 

[Purplelotus1]

I Know that MA groups have been travelling and doing demos without the commercialization that they MAY have now . We used to go to them and there was always one at our high school and I am 46 .

 

[yudansha]

But you see, High School and a baseball field are two different things.

 

[tora]

Now you live to tell me at my 20...Stil got a plenty of things to learn from the others.

 

[Purplelotus1]

But you see, High School and a baseball field are two different things.

The MA groups always attended all sorts of events in DIFFERENT places to promote their particular art. I used my High school as one example .

 

[yudansha]

jokes

funny Tora
Are there any baseball fields in estonia, because I can't remember any existing in the Ukraine; and the Soviet Union was against american made sports (we considered hockey the russian sport, no matter what Canadians said). It's only in the recent decade that such things began to gain popularity.

 

[KATHYPURDOM]

about the baseball story blame the source I got it from not me..however Steven did go in 68 when he was 17 to Japan and I do believe O sensei was still alive for like a year before Steven was trained by another instructor I could ask his ex wife Miyako she would know..she was there too.

Kathy look under Denali National Park service click that one for beautiful scenery!! click Denali then nat park serv..beautiful!!

SAS G,
It is so big I never new that there were so many acres out there that are untouched.
So beautiful out there. The pictures are awesome. Thank you.

 

[Hallarian]

about the baseball story blame the source I got it from not me..however Steven did go in 68 when he was 17 to Japan and I do believe O sensei was still alive for like a year before Steven was trained by another instructor I could ask his ex wife Miyako she would know..she was there too.

Kathy look under Denali National Park service click that one for beautiful scenery!! click Denali then nat park serv..beautiful!!

SAS, The Natives are Alaskans but villages like that don't exist anymore except for demonstration. I'm and Alaskan Nurse, I work with natives and they live in houses today. The costumes were examples of the best fur clothing people USED to wear, but now are used for ceremonies only. BTW that fur is very hot to wear. Pictures of Denali are taken all the time and sold commercially. Some of the pilots who fly the photographers are my patients and have flown me with and without the door.

 

[tora]

funny Tora
Are there any baseball fields in estonia, because I can't remember any existing in the Ukraine; and the Soviet Union was against american made sports (we considered hockey the russian sport, no matter what Canadians said). It's only in the recent decade that such things began to gain popularity.

Even if we had ones I doubt I'd ever hang around...but nope,we don't have ones and nowhere to hang around.They happen to like soccer more here,then they sort of play volleyball and sort of basketball.Better than that we have good skiers here.
Hey,we also have good judoists here,prize winners at the international competitions!

 

[Serena]

SAS, The Natives are Alaskans but villages like that don't exist anymore except for demonstration. I'm and Alaskan Nurse, I work with natives and they live in houses today. The costumes were examples of the best fur clothing people USED to wear, but now are used for ceremonies only. BTW that fur is very hot to wear. Pictures of Denali are taken all the time and sold commercially. Some of the pilots who fly the photographers are my patients and have flown me with and without the door.

Hallarian--very nice to hear from you! The last I remember, you were missing my pictures and getting ready to hike back uphill 6 km after a hard day of work. Glad to see you're safe and well.

Thanks for this lovely picture you've painted here. A big regret of mine is that we didn't make it to the national park when we were in Alaska. But I fell in love with everything else.

 

[Hallarian]

Hallarian--very nice to hear from you! The last I remember, you were missing my pictures and getting ready to hike back uphill 6 km after a hard day of work. Glad to see you're safe and well.

Thanks for this lovely picture you've painted here. A big regret of mine is that we didn't make it to the national park when we were in Alaska. But I fell in love with everything else.

Thank you Serena, I'm home safe but tired. The fur jaskets are called a Kuspik they show in the film and sell for several thousands of dollars as they are all hand sewn and the furs are expensive. I actually was allowed to wear one for a few minutes and the things are very heavy and hot. In the old days they were survival wear for the worse conditions like -40 to -60 in terrible wind. Otherwise the people wore light skins clothing when it was only -20 or 30 and no bad wind. Today most survival wear is bought or ex military. Air Force Arctic Parkas are popular and Bunny boots are the big thing if the weather is bad. Iditerod mushers buy really warm survival suits that they live in for the whole race. You can imagine what it's like to take one off an injured man who's beenon the trail ten days.

 

[Lotussan]

SAS - there are a lot of rumors as to what Seagal has done or been, and this is one of them. O'Sensei paid the only visit to the US in Hawaii - in Feb of 1961, before Seagal started studying aikido, and he did not do any demo at a baseball game. And O'Sensei died before Seagal even went to Japan. So this event never happened.

ok, where does he specifically state that it was O'Sensei he watched that day? If it isn't written anywhere, then you shouldn't be calling him a liar...
It was my understanding that he saw someone in a demo, don't know who, but I believe it was someone who he later traveled to Japan to be a disciple of, I could be wrong though...
Unless someone has the article in their possession, don't be dissing him, ok? Besides, you can't believe everything you read, maybe what he said wasn't exactly what he said at all...Unless it's him talking on video, I would have
my doubts...
Thanks, SAS GA, there were a few things you said, that I had never heard before...
Not that I believe them all to be true, without a doubt, but it's of great interest to me...

 

[SAS Guardian Angel]

Gallery

Suzi in the gallery there are several photos of him in b/w clearly with o'sensei M.U. of Aikido so he has seen him Ill check but I believe it was under the aikido photos. see for yourself people I saw it too..

 

[Lotussan]

Dear SAS GA, my computer is acting up tonight, but I tried looking for the photos, and can't find them can you direct us to them with a link? I don't know when O' sensei died, but I am sure Steven wouldn't lie about it... Like I said, even if there are different stories out there only Seagal Sensei knows the truth...

 

[SAS Guardian Angel]

Still Looking

Im thinking it may have been at another site Aikido world Journal or something like that it was an older photo maybe but I did see it could it have been Kissamaru his son he died in 99 of old age..it was one of them for sure cause he had long sideburns like in my picture by my siggy,